Grey’s Anatomy Season Four (2008) - Review

Ending on a brilliant portrayal by Sandra Oh of a hurt Cristina Yang who had just been left at the altar, season three was nothing short of overwhelming. Season four, however, is less overwhelming than season three, with more OR scenes, and a little less drama. 

A new cast member that was introduced in season three, is Chyler Leigh, who plays Lexie Grey, Meredith’s half-sister. Even though there were numerous arguments between them in the previous season, this season shows them making up and Meredith putting Lexie in her “circle”.

Lexie starts to fall for George, who is currently with Izzie, failed his intern exam and decides to repeat the year. Leigh’s portrayal of an intelligent doctor who is also a bit quirky is done excellently, and she soon becomes an audience favorite. 

With the usual on-again-off-again relationship with Meredith and Derek, some issues between them are stretched that it starts to become boring and repetitive. They break up again, he dates, but by the finale, Meredith makes a great big romantic gesture by creating a plan of the house Derek had built, but with candles.

Again, similar to previous trajectories her character had taken, this seems to a one in a million vulnerable moment that the audience do not get to see very often. However, it seems as though there are only a few things that Meredith and Cristina are willing to be emotional over and vulnerable with, and those are their love interests.